"Pouring Jewish water into fascist wine" : untold stories of (Catholic) Jews from the archive of Mussolini's Jesuit Pietro Tacchi Venturi /
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| Author / Creator: | Maryks, Robert A. |
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| Imprint: | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 389 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Language: | English Italian |
| Series: | Studies in the history of Christian traditions ; v. 157 Studies in the history of Christian traditions ; v. 157. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11123590 |
| Summary: | The aim of this book is to offer the reader a critical edition of the petitions in their original Italian language that (Catholic) Jews residing in Italy submitted to the Fascist General Administration for Demography and Race (Demorazza) in order either to be "discriminated," i.e., not subjected to various provisions of Mussolini's racial laws of 1938, or "Aryanized," i.e., be considered not of "the Jewish race," as defined by the convoluted and inconsistent Fascist anti-Semitic legislation. Anyone born of parents who both were of "the Jewish race," even though professing a religion other than Judaism, was deemed to be Jewish. Consequently, the racial laws affected not only those Italians who considered themselves Jewish, whether secular or religious, but also a significant number of Catholics whose ancestors had been Jewish, as the majority of the cases contained in this volume show.<br> <br> <br> <br> |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 389 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-376) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004222410 9004222413 9789004216709 9004216707 1283326981 9781283326988 9786613326980 6613326984 |